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The original sketch is for sale on Ebay.
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More examples at Codex99
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ReplyDeleteThe proportions in that diagram are roughly those of the classic canon; I don't think that Willis himself typically used those proportions. His women are usually leggier.
ReplyDeleteThe classic canon didn't simply arise arbitrarily; while idealizations of beauty are just that, they are informed by averages, and as averages change so does taste.
Nutrition has a marked effect on the long bones. A disproportionate share in the gain in average human height has come from longer legs.
The classic canon was informed by an average more skewed by malnutrition. The tension between the classic canon and tastes became very pronounced in the 20th Century.
Here's a funny post on the blog Gallery of the Absurd, comparing a study of female proportion in Adolphe Armand Braun's Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing to a revised version for the 21st century:
ReplyDeletehttp://galleryoftheabsurd.typepad.com/14/2007/12/the-female-body.html
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